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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump: I'm ‘too busy’ to watch impeachment hearings — President Donald Trump said Wednesday afternoon he hadn't had time to watch the first public impeachment hearings. — “I'm too busy to watch it,” he told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …
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Rep. Devin Nunes / The Permanent Select Committee …:
Nunes Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment — f t # e — Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment — In a July open hearing of this committee following publication of the Mueller report, the Democrats engaged in a last-ditch effort to convince …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Kremlin weighs in on Trump impeachment hearings — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump (all times local): — William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, says that a cellphone conversation his aide overheard between another diplomat …
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NBC News:
Taylor says staffer overheard Trump ask Sondland about ‘the investigations’
Taylor says staffer overheard Trump ask Sondland about ‘the investigations’
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CBS News:
Diplomat says aide heard Trump ask about “investigations” day after Ukraine call — live updates
Diplomat says aide heard Trump ask about “investigations” day after Ukraine call — live updates
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Impeachment Hearing: Live Updates From Taylor and Kent Testimony
Impeachment Hearing: Live Updates From Taylor and Kent Testimony
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Associated Press:
Takeaways so far from House public impeachment hearings
Takeaways so far from House public impeachment hearings
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Politico:
House Intel panel announces additional witnesses for public impeachment hearings
House Intel panel announces additional witnesses for public impeachment hearings
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
LIVE Watch Live And Read Our Analysis: The Trump Impeachment Hearings Hide, Video
LIVE Watch Live And Read Our Analysis: The Trump Impeachment Hearings Hide, Video
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ABC News:
GOP lawmakers go on offensive against Taylor in impeachment hearing: Live updates
GOP lawmakers go on offensive against Taylor in impeachment hearing: Live updates
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump impeachment hearings today will echo through the ages
Trump impeachment hearings today will echo through the ages
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
First Public Impeachment Hearings Begin Before House Panel
Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for the Impeachment Defense — My client's call with the Ukrainian president was innocent, and the House inquiry is a travesty. — If your only sources of news the past two months have been CNN and MSNBC, you probably think President Trump has committed some heinous act …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The impossibility of separating Giuliani from Trump — There's a concept in pop culture called “retconning,” short for retroactive continuity. The idea is that people working on continuations of existing stories — such as the people making a new “Star Wars” film, for example …
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NBC News:
The impeachment hearings could turn out to be more unpredictable than you think — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — Most in Washington are already convinced …
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Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
What Trump Is Hiding From the Impeachment Hearings
What Trump Is Hiding From the Impeachment Hearings
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John F. Harris / Politico:
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP — On December 19, 1998, the day House Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton, he recorded his highest-ever score in Gallup's presidential approval poll: 73 percent favorable. — That was 24 percentage points higher than Clinton's …
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Axios:
House Republicans might throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus to save Trump during impeachment — Top House Republican sources tell Axios that one impeachment survival strategy will be to try to distance President Trump from any Ukraine quid pro quo, with Rudy Giuliani potentially going under the bus.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
What to expect from impeachment
What to expect from impeachment
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
University of Florida's student president faces impeachment after bringing Donald Trump Jr. to campus for $50,000 — After the University of Florida's student body president helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month to the tune of $50,000 …
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Megan Reeves / Tampa Bay Times:
UF student president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit
UF student president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We know how the impeachment show ends, but we're still watching — DRIVING THE DAY — THE HOUSE'S IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS KIND OF LIKE WATCHING the newest season of “Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime Video. Sure, the twists and turns are exciting.
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CNN:
Trump invites GOP senators for unusual meeting with Erdoğan to ‘clear the air’
Trump invites GOP senators for unusual meeting with Erdoğan to ‘clear the air’
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
White House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall construction
White House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall construction
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Democrats' impeachment lawyer cut his teeth prosecuting mobsters, Wall Street cheats — The Democrats' lead impeachment hearing lawyer made his bones as a prosecutor by sending mobsters, stock swindlers and a multimillion-dollar inside trader to prison, cases in which colleagues said he mixed brains and “swagger” to win convictions.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Most voters remain unmovable in impeachment views
Poll: Most voters remain unmovable in impeachment views
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Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
Plague Is Diagnosed in China, Prompting Fears of an Outbreak — Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing. — 阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad — Hanks is playing Mister Rogers in a new movie and is just as nice as you think he is. Please read this article anyway. — Here is a list of stories about Tom Hanks I've heard over the last few miserable months, as it appeared that politeness …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump prepared for impeachment hearings with an epic Fox News binge — Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn after they returned to the White House from New York City on Tuesday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Trump is getting his spin directly from Dobbs …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Trump Tells Her Dad: Don't Tweet the Whistleblower's Name!
Ivanka Trump Tells Her Dad: Don't Tweet the Whistleblower's Name!
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Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC POLL: Trump faces tough re-election fight in Georgia — A majority of Georgians disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance in the White House and he appears to be facing a hard fight against each of the five top Democratic candidates seeking to replace him, according to an exclusive Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The impeachment calculus Democrats don't want to talk about — Sen. Brian Schatz, the Democrat from Hawaii, is well-known for a jokey Twitter feed popular with the #Resistance. When I talked to him last night as he was walking into the Senate on the eve of the first impeachment hearings in 21 years, he was in a more serious mood.
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Filing Suggests No McCabe Prosecution Imminent — In pending lawsuit, DOJ says it won't block release of documents related to former deputy FBI head based on probe — The Justice Department suggested in a filing Wednesday that it had no immediate plans …
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Political Wire
Emily Smith / Page Six:
ABC scrambles to figure out identity of Amy Robach leaker, who goes by ‘Ignotus’ — ABC bigwigs are going potty to find the identity of the leaker behind the Amy Robach tape — after the alleged source posted a letter online slamming the network under the name “Ignotus,” a wizard from the “Harry Potter” franchise.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House committees request new testimony from U.S. official in Ukraine — The House committees investigating President Trump and Ukraine have scheduled closed-door depositions for David Holmes, an official working at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, and Mark Sandy, an official working …
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Frustrated Trump allies urge him to stop talking about himself — President Donald Trump has described his infamous July call with Ukraine's president as “perfect.” He has insisted the whistleblower is a “Never Trumper” who opposed his presidency. And he blasts House Democrats for waging a flawed …
MIX / The Next Web:
Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed — 3,072 — iPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you're scrolling your feed. — The issue has come to light after a user going by the name Joshua Maddux took …
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